| drastically |
| 1. adv. To a drastic degree. | |
| This recession has been drastically different. | |
| drastically reduced prices | |
| 2. adv. In a drastic manner. | |
| Lisa always wore shorts and a T-shirt, which clashed drastically with her brother's thick winter coat. | |
| reduced |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of reduce | |
| 2. adj. Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction. | |
| the reduced prices in a summer sale | |
| 3. adj. Discounted in price. | |
| the reduced goods at the sale | |
| 4. adj. (cookery) Of a sauce etc.: made more concentrated. | |
| The chicken was served in a reduced red wine sauce. | |
| reduce |
| 1. v. To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair. | |
| to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To lose weight. | |
| 3. v. To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote. | |
| to reduce a sergeant to the ranks | |
| 4. v. To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture. | |
| to reduce a province or a fort | |
| 5. v. To bring to an inferior state or condition. | |
| to reduce a city to ashes | |
| 6. v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen. | |
| 8. v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form | |
| 12. v. (transitive, legal) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing"). | |
| It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing. | |
| 13. v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment. | |
| 14. v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square). | |
| 15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.). | |
| a book reduced into English | |
| prices |
| 1. n. plural of price | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of price | |
| price |
| 1. n. The cost required to gain possession of something. | |
| 2. n. The cost of an action or deed. | |
| I paid a high price for my folly. | |
| 3. n. Value; estimation; excellence; worth. | |
| 4. v. To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on. | |
| 5. v. (obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for. | |
| 6. v. (obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize. | |
| 7. v. (colloquial, dated) To ask the price of. | |
| to price eggs | |
